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| Thursday, Nov. 26, 1863 was proclaimed as 'a day of' this 'and praise' | |
| Get a birthday card for mom at this store chain founded in 1950 & named for an early form of paper | |
| In a Franz Lehar opera, Hanna Glawari, who recently lost her banker-husband, is this title character | |
| City & country where NATO is headquartered | |
| Of the 12 beasts representing years in the Chinese calendar, the one not biologically related to any creature on earth | |
| 'Fighting for Air' (medically): ALA | |
| Became the II of his name in 978, whether he was ready or not | |
| In 1777 an opponent wrote of him 'money is this man's god, and to get enough of it he would sacrifice his country' | |
| Hannah's leaving Montana heading east into this state that borders Canada | |
| It's the Robert Frost poem that says, 'Good fences make good neighbors' | |
| On Sept. 5, Dwight Eisenhower told this state's Gov. that 'the federal Constitution will be upheld by me by every legal means' | |
| Lorraine Hansberry's title 'A Raisin in the Sun' comes from a line in the poem 'Harlem' by this man | |
| As a noun, it's a building where grain is ground into flour; as a verb, it means to do the grinding | |
| This Grammy winner who died in 2009 at age 94 was an inductee into both the Rock & Roll & National Inventors Halls of Fame | |
| King Khalid International Airport | |
| August Horch named his car company this after translating Horch, which means 'hark!' or 'hear', into Latin | |
| A phone-hacking scandal forced this British tabloid to close in 2011 | |
| This adjective can mean 'very useful' or 'performed without vocals' | |
| A 2005 study reported that this animal named for an island has, pound-for-pound, the most powerful bite of any mammal | |
| Bauxite is where you'll find this element, the most abundant metal in the earth's crust | |
| Though he didn't make it all the way to 'Cipango', he reported it had gold in the greatest abundance | |
| The Department of State & an area of Washington, D.C. are nicknamed this | |
| Later famous for thrillers like 'Psycho', this man directed the silent murder mystery 'The Lodger' | |
| A letter in this mystery says, 'We are going...to Luxor and Assuan by steamer, and perhaps on to Khartoum' | |
| Canavanine, produced by some plants, is a special one of these acids; it messes up proteins in insects' bodies | |
| This novelist's magnum opus is literally translated 'In Search of Lost Time' | |
| This shepherd became King Saul's personal musician & armor bearer | |
| This elementary particle that makes up light has no mass or electric charge | |
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| These fictional beings are also called Periannath & Halflings, but this familiar term means 'hole-builders' | |
| The Constitution defines this crime as 'levying war' against the United States or giving enemies 'aid and comfort' | |
| 'The Da Vinci Code' was actually the second novel to feature symbologist Robert Langdon; this book was first | |
| The Kenan-Flagler business school occupies a 191,000 sq.-ft. building on the Chapel Hill campus of this university | |
| This long-running musical is based on a 1911 horror novel by Gaston Leroux | |
| She's the mother of 5, grandmother of 9 & minority leader in the House of Representatives | |
| Tyrannosaurus Rex didn't live during the Jurassic period but rather in this one | |
| A popular TV & movie subject, this gladiator led a slave revolt that ended with his death in battle in 71 B.C. | |
| When the future state of Iowa became part of the United States, this man was President | |
| Port cities on this sea include Massawa in Eritrea & Hurghada in Egypt | |
| It's believed that its nose was about 3 feet wide when it was first constructed around 2500 B.C. | |
| William Shakespeare is second; this historical novelist with the same initials is third | |
| A circle of cobblestones in front of the Old State House commemorates this 1770 clash in which 5 were killed | |
| 1953: 'Life on a Honolulu army post just before the Pearl Harbor attack' | |
| He was emperor when Japan's 'The emperor...shall not have powers related to government' was written | |
| Completed in 1959, it's been variously described as a snail, a concrete tornado, even a giant wedding cake | |
| Written in 1866, 'A Long Fatal Love Chase', a Gothic novel by this American woman, was finally published in 1995 | |
| First held in may 1875, it is the oldest continuously held major sporting event in the United States | |
| This play that came to Broadway in 2005 is set in the autumn of 1964 at St. Nicholas church school in the Bronx | |
| In 1934 the lease for this place was increased to $4,085 per year; since 1959 the checks haven't been cashed | |
| The Preamble to the Declaration of Independence begins with these 7 words | |
| 'The Man who Invented the Twentieth Century' is a biography of this scientist born in the Balkans | |
| This performer is the only person to win an Emmy, the Mark Twain Prize & the Spingarn Medal | |
| Of the 5 elements with 4-letter names, it's the only one that is not a solid at room temperature | |
| Seeing young people competing in a reality show on one channel & fighting a war on another gave this author a book idea | |
| Mia Farrow taking a pregnancy pause in a horror pic segues into Tina Fey's ticking biological clock in a 2008 comedy | |
| In 1853 this American wrote about his vulcanization discovery in 'Gum Elastic and its Varieties' | |
| The British did not have bon temps in the Jan. 8, 1815 battle of this city | |
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| Gilded Age advocates of the theory called 'Social' this -ism applauded the 'survival of the fittest' | |
| On March 20, 1952 this country's supreme court declared voter segregation unconstitutional, but it continued | |
| Unrhymed poetry of irregular meter & rhythm is known by this 2-word term | |
| 'Somewhere in la Mancha, in a place whose name I do not care to remember, a gentleman lived not long ago' | |
| In 1944 bombers at high altitude were speedily propelled forward--what's now called this 2-word phenomenon | |
| Though its name means 'against life', it's any of a class of substances used to save a life | |
| Mussolini signed the Lateran Treaty on behalf of Victor Emmanuel III; Cardinal Gasparri signed on behalf of this pope | |
| Although the first celebration of this holiday occurred in October 1792, it didn't become a federal holiday until 1937 | |
| The National Inventors Hall Of Fame said his work 'brought the South prosperity', but he was out of business within 5 years | |
| This H.G. Wells story says the title figure has 'goggling spectacles and (a) ghastly bandaged face' | |
| Biologist Edward O. Wilson told a rapt WSF audience about the chemical 'vocabulary' of these colony insects | |
| A supercolony of an invading Argentine species of this insect stretches almost 4,000 miles from Italy to Portugal | |
| 'The King's Speech' featured Timothy Spall as this quippy future prime minister | |
| I sent troops in to quell the 1894 Pullman Railroad strike because it was interrupting the delivery of this | |
| Only 3 sites have the remains of 2 presidents: 1 at Quincy, Massachusetts, 1 at Arlington & 1 in this state capital | |
| Newly elected U.S. senators & congressmen are sworn in on the 3rd of this month | |
| Besides Antarctica, the 2 continents that have never hosted the Summer or Winter Olympic Games | |
| Her final resting place is a Missouri cemetery where she shares a headstone with husband Almanzo | |
| Dean Acheson | |
| Clipper Goodwill, a Boeing 727, took this airline's last passengers from Barbados to Miami December 4, 1991 | |
| 'The Wiz' opened on January 5, 1975; this other Oz-set musical on October 30, 2003 | |
| 'For the children, they Mark, and the children, they know the place where the ___ ends' | |
| Discovered in 1870, this natural feature of a national park has been called 'Eternity's Timepiece' | |
| Osceola | |
| In 2011, in the preface to the 75th anniv. edition, Pat Conroy called this novel 'the last great...victory of the Confederacy' | |
| These stones bearing a dedication to the emperor were set every 1,000 paces along Roman roads | |
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